-Because of the events on 9/11, security has been improved in airports, however, according to an Interview with ABC and Brian Jenkins, the security is not as established as it needs to be. (He says they have a long way to go)
-Al Qaida, the group who created the events on 9/11 is now one of our biggest enemies, if not the most important group to defeat. The leader of Al Qeada, Osama Bin Laden, was killed by the United States’ Seal Team Six in 2011.
-We are currently at war with Afghanistan, but as Obama stated in a current interview, “The War is winding down.”
-People that aren’t born in the U.S. that want to become citizens have to live here a certain amount of time and take tests.
-There have also been many debates on gun control. This doesn’t necessarily have to do with terrorist attacks, but it has the same concept of protecting the U.S. citizens. (This has been discussed recently because of the current massacres around the country)
-Just like Ancient Rome, we have an army fighting on the other side of the world so we can keep our country Free and United.
-In Planes, the windows to the Cockpit are now bulletproof due to the happenings/events on September 11th, 2001.
Ancient Rome:
-Around the corners/borders of Rome, the Barbarian tribes would come ready to fight and attack. The army tried their best to keep them out.
-The Barbarians were uncivilized and didn’t have a language, but they all knew to attack together at once.
-The emperor at the time, Valens, tried his best to be a worthy emperor but he had the wrong actions for Rome.
-There were 5 barbarian tribes, which were the Huns, Franks, Vandals, Saxons, and Visigoths.
-Over time, the Barbarians grew smarter and had better plans for invading/attacking Rome.
-Just like in the U.S, Ancient Rome had an army to protect them, to fight, and to build roads for travel.
-The Barbarian men came in to attack Rome. Townspeople overthrew the emperor, and the Barbarians flooded the streets of Rome. They had conquered the land of Rome, and it all crumbled for the Romans.
-By the 6th century, smaller kingdoms had replaced Rome, which were ruled by Barbarian Kings.
How the problems in Rome could have been fixed:
The Barbarians weren't very civilized, so it would have been a good idea for the Romans to just attack. Rome was over populated, they had enough men to fight off the Barbarians, and they didn't, which was a problem. Citations:
I'm Morgan and I'm a 7th grade student from Nagel Middle School in Cincinnati, OH and I am doing a project on invasion of the Barbarians in Ancient Rome. I am comparing the Barbarian invasion to terrorism in the United States. I have researched extensively but still have a few questions that need to be answered. If you have the time, please try to answer the following questions:
-What are some of the most important or most effective changes in protection for the U.S. in the past decade?
-What are some improvements, laws, or policies that our country could create to end terrorism? (If you have thought of any in the past)
-In airport security, I understand that people who are not US citizens have different search procedures and inspections. How is this legal and do you think it is a strong enough measure to stop terrorism?
Thank You for your time, and enjoy your week!
Sincerely,
Morgan Cook
Two Replies:
Thank you for your email. Here are my answers to your questions:
As the Framers of the Constitution and the advocates of the Bill of Rights understood, the biggest threat facing the American people is not terrorism but rather the federal government. That's why those two documents protect the people from the federal government rather than terrorists. Unfortunately, there have been few protections that have been implemented to protect the citizenry from this threat, especially with respect to the torture, assassination, and indefinite military detention of Americans and others.
Dismantle the U.S. government's foreign empire of military bases, end the government's foreign policy of interventionism into the affairs of other countries, terminate all sanctions and embargoes, end torture and assassination, end foreign aid, especially to brutal dictators, and dismantle the national-security state (ie., the standing army, the military industrial complex, and the CIA). They are the root cause of the anger and animosity that manifests itself in terrorist attacks against the U.S.
It isn't legal. Everyone is entitled to equal treatment under the law and under the Constitution. The best thing to do is privatize the airports and get the government out of the airport security business.
By the way, by the time the barbarians invaded Rome, many Romans were so sick and tired of the Roman Empire's welfare-warfare state, along with its burdensome taxes, regulations, inflation, and foreign wars that they didn't resist the barbarians as much as they would have if they had been free people. Of course, some of them were still operating under the delusion that living under an empire is equivalent to being free, much as Americans today believe. In fact, the plight of the American people, who spend their time praising the troops for "protecting their rights and freedoms," can best be summed up with the words of the German thinker Johann Goethe: None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.
Best regards and best of luck with your project.
Jacob Next Reply:
Some of the most important protections stemmed from the 9/11 attack on our soil. These include the creation of the US-VISIT system for alien entry exit tracking (though, sadly, the exit portion is still not completed), the REAL ID Act's antifraud standards for critical ID documents (driver's licenses in particular) and done in a way that respects state authority, and expansion and steady improvement of the E-VERIFY system, which enables employers to verify that a new employee is legitimately eligible to work in the United States.
Unfortunately, certain other positive changes have been under the attack of the Obama administration. The administration has aggressively neutered the 287(g) program, which has enabled state/local law enforcement agencies to assist in immigration enforcement at the local level (serving as eyes and ears where no federal agents will ever be), as well as attacked state and local laws directed at cracking down on illegal immigrants (e.g., Arizona's S.B. 1070), going so far as to sue several states. That federal stance has sent a signal to illegal aliens that the administration isn't serious about enforcement. Combined with constant talk of legalization, the federal administration is being counterproductive to enforcing the immigration laws on the books.
-What are some improvements, laws, or policies that our country could create to end terrorism? (If you have thought of any in the past)
I've written about one key tool we could reestablish, and that's ideological exclusion. We could (as we did during the Cold War and even before) bar entry to foreigners who hold anti-American, antidemocratic, antiliberty ideological views. We'll never totally end terrorism even if we enact wholesale enforcement measures that brutally restrict our American liberties. But at least we could be more diligent to ensure that the foreigners we admit into the country don't harbor views that lead directly to terrorism against us.
-In airport security, I understand that people who are not US citizens have different search procedures and inspections. How is this legal and do you think it is a strong enough measure to stop terrorism?
It's legal because it's part of our national sovereignty. Each nation is free to determine who and on what grounds it admits or bars entry of anyone from any other country. Even though someone technically lands on American territory, they aren't regarded as a matter of law as having being admitted for entry. Someone who jumps the border from Mexico has "entered without inspection," the same basic violation of law. Until our inspectors have okayed an individual, he hasn't "entered" the country. Think of Ellis Island, where the Great Wave immigrants landed. They were technically on American soil, but hadn't been inspected and admitted to enter. Some were cleared for entrance, others were sent back for various reasons (e.g., carrying proscribed diseases, being beggars and paupers likely to end up as "public charges"), others were held there until certain matters were addressed (locating a relative already here to take responsibility for them), etc.
The main problem, from a security standpoint, is volume. Inspectors have to process tens of millions of foreigners, plus traveling American citizens returning, through ports of entry each year. With the ease of obtaining valid-looking or fraudulently obtained ID documents and with the problem from some countries of visa overstayers (they arrive on a valid temporary visa and never leave when the visa expires), we've adopted certain biometric identifiers and embedded biometric information in some IDs. This is more prevalent overseas, but we've done it to an extent. That's the most secure, but it's also the most troubling when it's done on U.S. citizens (privacy and liberty concerns abound). If we could require other nations' citizens to give us biometric while keeping it from being required of Americans, that would be satisfactory to a large segment of our population. But the diplomatic people would insist that we have to act reciprocally on such matters.
“Barbarian Tribes Invade” Research
By: Morgan Cook
United States:
-Because of the events on 9/11, security has been improved in airports, however, according to an Interview with ABC and Brian Jenkins, the security is not as established as it needs to be. (He says they have a long way to go)
-Al Qaida, the group who created the events on 9/11 is now one of our biggest enemies, if not the most important group to defeat. The leader of Al Qeada, Osama Bin Laden, was killed by the United States’ Seal Team Six in 2011.
-We are currently at war with Afghanistan, but as Obama stated in a current interview, “The War is winding down.”
-People that aren’t born in the U.S. that want to become citizens have to live here a certain amount of time and take tests.
-There have also been many debates on gun control. This doesn’t necessarily have to do with terrorist attacks, but it has the same concept of protecting the U.S. citizens. (This has been discussed recently because of the current massacres around the country)
-Just like Ancient Rome, we have an army fighting on the other side of the world so we can keep our country Free and United.
-In Planes, the windows to the Cockpit are now bulletproof due to the happenings/events on September 11th, 2001.
Ancient Rome:
-Around the corners/borders of Rome, the Barbarian tribes would come ready to fight and attack. The army tried their best to keep them out.
-The Barbarians were uncivilized and didn’t have a language, but they all knew to attack together at once.
-The emperor at the time, Valens, tried his best to be a worthy emperor but he had the wrong actions for Rome.
-There were 5 barbarian tribes, which were the Huns, Franks, Vandals, Saxons, and Visigoths.
-Over time, the Barbarians grew smarter and had better plans for invading/attacking Rome.
-Just like in the U.S, Ancient Rome had an army to protect them, to fight, and to build roads for travel.
-The Barbarian men came in to attack Rome. Townspeople overthrew the emperor, and the Barbarians flooded the streets of Rome. They had conquered the land of Rome, and it all crumbled for the Romans.
-By the 6th century, smaller kingdoms had replaced Rome, which were ruled by Barbarian Kings.
How the problems in Rome could have been fixed:
The Barbarians weren't very civilized, so it would have been a good idea for the Romans to just attack. Rome was over populated, they had enough men to fight off the Barbarians, and they didn't, which was a problem.Citations:
http://rome.mrdonn.org/barbarians.html
http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/story?id=126658&page=1
http://www.fsmitha.com/review/r-burns.htm
E-mail to Expert:
Good Morning,
I'm Morgan and I'm a 7th grade student from Nagel Middle School in Cincinnati, OH and I am doing a project on invasion of the Barbarians in Ancient Rome. I am comparing the Barbarian invasion to terrorism in the United States. I have researched extensively but still have a few questions that need to be answered. If you have the time, please try to answer the following questions:
-What are some of the most important or most effective changes in protection for the U.S. in the past decade?
-What are some improvements, laws, or policies that our country could create to end terrorism? (If you have thought of any in the past)
-In airport security, I understand that people who are not US citizens have different search procedures and inspections. How is this legal and do you think it is a strong enough measure to stop terrorism?
Thank You for your time, and enjoy your week!
Sincerely,
Morgan Cook
Two Replies:
Thank you for your email. Here are my answers to your questions:
As the Framers of the Constitution and the advocates of the Bill of Rights understood, the biggest threat facing the American people is not terrorism but rather the federal government. That's why those two documents protect the people from the federal government rather than terrorists. Unfortunately, there have been few protections that have been implemented to protect the citizenry from this threat, especially with respect to the torture, assassination, and indefinite military detention of Americans and others.
Dismantle the U.S. government's foreign empire of military bases, end the government's foreign policy of interventionism into the affairs of other countries, terminate all sanctions and embargoes, end torture and assassination, end foreign aid, especially to brutal dictators, and dismantle the national-security state (ie., the standing army, the military industrial complex, and the CIA). They are the root cause of the anger and animosity that manifests itself in terrorist attacks against the U.S.
It isn't legal. Everyone is entitled to equal treatment under the law and under the Constitution. The best thing to do is privatize the airports and get the government out of the airport security business.
By the way, by the time the barbarians invaded Rome, many Romans were so sick and tired of the Roman Empire's welfare-warfare state, along with its burdensome taxes, regulations, inflation, and foreign wars that they didn't resist the barbarians as much as they would have if they had been free people. Of course, some of them were still operating under the delusion that living under an empire is equivalent to being free, much as Americans today believe. In fact, the plight of the American people, who spend their time praising the troops for "protecting their rights and freedoms," can best be summed up with the words of the German thinker Johann Goethe: None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.
Best regards and best of luck with your project.
Jacob
Next Reply:
Unfortunately, certain other positive changes have been under the attack of the Obama administration. The administration has aggressively neutered the 287(g) program, which has enabled state/local law enforcement agencies to assist in immigration enforcement at the local level (serving as eyes and ears where no federal agents will ever be), as well as attacked state and local laws directed at cracking down on illegal immigrants (e.g., Arizona's S.B. 1070), going so far as to sue several states. That federal stance has sent a signal to illegal aliens that the administration isn't serious about enforcement. Combined with constant talk of legalization, the federal administration is being counterproductive to enforcing the immigration laws on the books.
The main problem, from a security standpoint, is volume. Inspectors have to process tens of millions of foreigners, plus traveling American citizens returning, through ports of entry each year. With the ease of obtaining valid-looking or fraudulently obtained ID documents and with the problem from some countries of visa overstayers (they arrive on a valid temporary visa and never leave when the visa expires), we've adopted certain biometric identifiers and embedded biometric information in some IDs. This is more prevalent overseas, but we've done it to an extent. That's the most secure, but it's also the most troubling when it's done on U.S. citizens (privacy and liberty concerns abound). If we could require other nations' citizens to give us biometric while keeping it from being required of Americans, that would be satisfactory to a large segment of our population. But the diplomatic people would insist that we have to act reciprocally on such matters.